In November 1977, Charles Oropallo authored and
implemented an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) called
Access-80. It operated on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I,
Level II microcomputer. There were only a handful of
such systems online for public use on the entire planet
at that time.

Charles founded CharlesWorks® in June of 1998 in order
to provide reliable and affordable hosting solutions. At
that time he was only providing Internet connectivity
for several personal websites at very low speed.

Over time, Charles's desire to provide reliable (as well
as still being affordable) Internet solutions moved
CharlesWorks® into more commercially oriented markets.
Charles still helps individuals get personal sites on
the web.

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Charles
wrote a host program in assembly
language and a bulletin board system
(BBS) program in BASIC that ran on this
system. The message handling program he
named "email" (and still wishes he had
registered it with the United States
Trademark and Patent office).

Its purpose was to provide a personal
messaging system for local computer
enthusiasts. It was originally placed
online in East Greenbush, New York with
a 300 baud modem and home brewed auto
answering device. As a frame of
reference, today's telephone dial-up can
run as fast as 53,300 baud. At that time, there
were only a handful of such systems
available for anyone with computers and
modems to dial in to.

Shortly after, it was concurrently
placed online in Schenectady, New York.

In 1982, Charles moved from the Albany,
New York area to Nashua, New Hampshire,
and so did Access-80. Charles's original
Nashua Access-80 setup is shown above.

It was not long before it was
concurrently online in Londonderry as
well as Nashua. Access-80 remained
online until 1987.

CharlesWorks can make your web
presence happen for you! A typical
small business web site is hosted
for only $19.99 per month.

There are other more robust packages
and products offered as well for our
larger clients.